HOLLYWOOD ACTOR PREP by Dana Kaminski

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Television Mid-Season Premiere Schedule…

 

Broadcast Networks 

January 3rd
8-9 PM GAME SHOW IN MY HEAD - Series premieres (CBS) 
8-9 PM Cops - Season 21 returns (FOX) 
9-10 PM America’s Most Wanted - Season 22 returns (FOX) 

January 5th
8-9 PM The Bachelor - Season 13 premieres (ABC) 
8-9 PM SUPERSTARS OF DANCE - Series premiere (Previews on January 4th) (NBC) 
8-9 PM Gossip Girl - Season 2 returns (CW) 
9-10 PM One Tree Hill - Season 6 returns (CW)
10-11 PM TRUE BEAUTY - Series premiere (ABC) 

January 6th
8-9 PM HOMELAND SECURITY USA - Series premiere (ABC) 
8-9 PM The Biggest Loser: Couples - Season 7 premieres (NBC) 
8-9 PM 90210 - Season 1 returns (CW) 
9-10 PM Scrubs - Season 8 premieres (ABC) Read the REVIEW
9-10 PM Privileged - Season 1 returns (CW) 
10-11 PM PRIMETIME - Series premiere (ABC) 
10-11 PM Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 10 premieres (NBC) 

January 7th
8-9 PM Knight Rider - Season 1 returns (NBC) 
8-9 PM 13: FEAR IS REAL - Series premiere (CW) 

January 8th
8-9 PM Ugly Betty - Season 3 returns (ABC) 
8-8:30 PM My Name Is Earl - Season 4 returns (NBC) 
8:30-9 PM Kath & Kim - Season 1 returns (NBC) 
9-10 PM Grey’s Anatomy - Season 5 returns (ABC) 
9-9:30 PM The Office - Season 5 returns (NBC) 
9:30-10 PM 30 Rock - Season 3 returns (NBC) 
10-11 PM Private Practice - Season 2 returns (ABC) 
10-11 PM ER - Season 15 returns (NBC) 

January 9th
8-9 PM Ghost Whisperer - Season 4 returns (CBS)
8-9 PM HOWIE DO IT - Series premiere (NBC) 
8-9 PM Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? - Season 3 returns (FOX) 
8-8:30 PM Everybody Hates Chris - Season 4 returns (CW) 
8:30-9 PM The Game - Season 3 returns (CW) 
9-10 PM Flashpoint - Season 2 premieres (CBS) 
9-10 PM Friday Night Lights - Season 3 premieres (NBC) 
9-10 PM Don’t Forget The Lyrics! - Season 2 returns (FOX) 
10-11 PM Numb3rs - Season 5 returns (CBS) 

January 12th
9:30-10 PM Worst Week - Season 1 returns (CBS)
9-10 PM 24 - Season 7 premieres (Previews on January 11th) (FOX) 

January 13th
8-9 PM American Idol - Season 8 premieres (FOX) 

January 15th
8-9 PM Bones - Season 4 returns (FOX) 
8-9 PM Smallville - Season 8 returns (CW) 
9-10 PM C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 9 returns (CBS) 
9-10 PM Kitchen Nightmares - Season 2 returns (FOX) 
9-10 PM Supernatural - Season 4 returns (CW) 
10-11 PM Eleventh Hour - Season 1 returns (CBS) 

January 18th
7-8 PM Hole In The Wall - Season 1 returns (FOX) 
8-8:30 PM The Simpsons - Season 20 returns (FOX) 
8:30-9 PM King of the Hill - Season 13 returns (FOX) 
9-9:30 PM Family Guy - Season 7 returns (FOX) 
9:30-10 PM American Dad - Season 4 returns (FOX) 

January 19th
8-9 PM House - Season 5 returns, New timeslot (FOX) 

January 20th
9-10 PM Fringe - Season 1 returns (FOX) 

January 21st
9-10 PM Lost - Season 5 premieres (ABC) Read the REVIEW 
9-10 PM LIE TO ME - Series premiere (FOX) 

January 26th
10-11 PM TRUST ME - Series premiere (TNT) 

January 28th
10-11 PM Life on Mars - Season 1 returns, New timeslot (ABC) 

January 29th
9-10 PM Hell’s Kitchen - Season 5 premieres (FOX) 

February 2nd
8-9 PM Chuck - Season 2 returns (NBC) 
9-10 PM Heroes - Season 2 returns (NBC) 
10-11 PM Medium - Season 2 premieres (NBC) 

February 4th
9-10 PM Life - Season 2 returns (NBC) 

February 13th
8-9 PM Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 2 returns, New timeslot (FOX) 
9-10 PM DOLLHOUSE - Series premiere (FOX) 

March 1st
9-10 PM The Apprentice - Season 8 premieres (NBC) 

March 17th
9-10 PM Dancing with the Stars - Season 8 premieres (ABC) 
9-10 PM Reaper - Season 2 premieres (CW) 

March 19th
10-11 PM KINGS - Series premiere (NBC) 

March 24th
10-11 PM CUPID - Series premiere (ABC) Read the REVIEW 

Date To Be Determined
Better Off Ted - Series Premiere (ABC) Read the REVIEW

Cable Networks 

January 5th 
8-9 PM The Secret Life of the American Teenager - New timeslot (ABC Family)
10-11 PM No Reservations - Season premiere (TRAV) 

January 6th
10-11 PM Nip/Tuck - Season 5 returns (FX) 

January 7th
9-10 PM Ghost Hunters International - Season 2 premieres (SciFi) 
10-11 PM Damages - Season 2 premieres (FX) Read the REVIEW
10-11 PM The Real World - Season 21 premieres (MTV) 

January 9th
9-10 PM Monk - Season 7 returns (USA) Read the REVIEW 
10-11 PM Psych - Season 3 returns (USA) 

January 15th
10-11 PM THE BEAST - Series premiere (A&E) Read the REVIEW 

January 16th
10-11 PM Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 returns (SciFi) 

January 18th
9-10 PM The L Word - Season 6 premieres (Showtime) 
9-10 PM Big Love - Season 3 premieres (HBO) 
10-10:30 THE UNITED STATES OF TARA - Series premiere (Showtime) 
10-10:30 PM Flight of the Conchords - Season 2 premieres (HBO)
10:30-11 PM Secret Diary of a Call Girl - Season 2 premieres (Showtime) 

January 22nd
10-11 PM Burn Notice - Season 2 returns (USA) 

January 26th
10-11 PM TRUST ME - Series premiere (TNT)

 

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Rare Television Acting Clips:

One with Paul Newman, and one with James Dean        

      …at bottom of post…( Hey, don’t skip now!  )

 

Acting Residuals Began In Radio Days

Residuals are entirely a “show business” invention, and an American invention. They were conceived in the era of radio broadcasting, when technological advances created a broadcasting dilemma…which arose when recording became possible. 

Prior, on radio,  all American broadcasting was performed live.  And…just like the regular programming we now have on television, there were regularly scheduled programs, on radio.

Except there was no “recording” yet.

Acting :: Radio

All the programs were performed, by actors, live.  

Every show, every time.  Due to the expanse of America, and different time zones; the shows were performed twice a day…Once, for the Eastern part of America,\; and a second for the Pacific Standard Time Zone.

Actors would need to be at a studio, at the time of broadcast, and physically perform the shows over the air. They would get paid for their performance.  Paid for each performance; the same as they would for every live performance in a theater.

Joan Crawford

Technology Evolved, and Acting Was Able To Be Recorded

In the mid-1930’s, they figured out a primitive way to record the shows.  The actors wouldn’t have to act each performance out more than once, per each episode. 

Fanny Brice, Comedy Actress

Or so it was conceived.  But the recording technology wasn’t reliable enough, not at first.  

Actors Still Performed Live, For The First Show, At Least

And it was broadcast that way, with the actors gathered around a microphone, performing in the studio.

But because the recording was such a new technology, and not yet reliable, the actors would have to remain in the studio, waiting around, to be sure that the recording was good enough for the next time-zone broadcast. 

If not, they would act out the entire show,  live, once again.

Superman, Acted Live, On Radio

Thus, the term “residual”.  Actors were paid for their performances for the second show, just like when they performed it live.  Except the residuals were the payment for the recorded broadcast of their performance.   This began in 1941.

 Acting Was Live Only, In Early Television Performances

When television broadcasting came about, in the 1950’s, all performances were live also; the only thing that broadcast on TV that wasn’t live were actual movies: “re-runs”…which were originally made for, and had played first, in movie theatres.

In 1951, the first TV residuals, were paid. They were compensation for the movie re-runs.  To musicians…who had played music in the films, while in production.  (Like “royalties”)  This was set up by the musician’s union, called the American Federation of Musicians.

Actor Ronald Reagan

Kinoscope: First TV Recordings

Until a recording technology called kinoscope came into use.  In 1952, an actor named Walter Pidgeon, was the president of SAG.  He called for the first SAG strike, and it was then that actors received residuals for recorded performances.

Here’s James Dean, acting on television, in  an early kinoscope recording:

Again, kinoscope wasn’t the greatest, but it did allow television to be broadcast and shows to be rerun.

Frank Sinatra Show with Elvis Presley

The following is a kinoscope  called “The Army Game”.  It was broadcast on television, and starred a young actor: Paul Newman.  

Director Sidney Pollack (who passed away in 2008) was an actor before he became a director.  He c0-stars in this theatrical “television  special”.  

More on this, at a later date…

Best,

Dana

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